Inspirational projects

How can craft & design shape the future & social landscape in the African continent? The Craft & Design pop up academy prototype will address how experimentation with ancient techniques, new materials and disruptive approaches can improve the peri-urban environment and sharpen our social consciousness.

Three performing arts productions each challenge the boundaries between the local and the global in their own way.

The objective of Ecologists at Risk (ER) is to open the 1st independent Residency at Aki Aora, Mexico for at-risk ecologists. ER is a next-gen residency programme at the intersection of environmental activism and art/culture.

The AI Parties International brings together AI-driven parties and politicians for a large-scale international artistic work.

“Transnational archives in the Arctic: a cultural exchange of memories” is a project which investigates archive structures about the Arctic, with an aim to decolonize contemporary archive structures by developing alternatives and create dialogue and cultural exchange across and beyond the Arctic region.

Led by Trans Europe Halles, GET is a global community of practice that brings together academics, architects, designers, cultural organisations, and grassroots communities from 9 countries on 4 continents.

The project focuses on the representation of women and minorities among those working behind the artistic scenes in logistics, engineering and production.

The project is based on a nature restoration project that will attempt to minimize the damage that industrially planted spruce trees have begun to cause to naturally growing birch trees due to global warming. Through the restoration project, Observations of Change will artistically illustrate the consequences of human intervention in nature.

A revitalisation and reinterpretation of the earliest printing types used in the first Finnish printing house, which existed from 1642-1827. Based on surviving books and copies from the printing house, the project will breathe new life into old printing practices.

The project will develop a Nordic network for archaeologists working with urban archaeology. Among other things, the network will ensure that the large amount of current research in the field is shared across the Nordic region.

Contemporary puppetry network Nordic-UA will support Ukrainian puppetry artists by bringing together puppeteers from the Nordic region and Ukraine for a series of workshops that will focus on artistic exchange and common European values such as democracy in the arts and artistic diversity.

A cross-Nordic co-production project for emerging artists. The project works in three different countries and builds international mentor relationships to help the new artists establish themselves in a Nordic arena.

A Nordic exchange and research programme to strengthen the development of choreographic art across the Nordic and Baltic countries.

An anthology about and by Afro-Nordic performers that will shed light on the experiences of the community in the Nordic region and contribute to the public discourse on the subject.

In the Mirror of Care Work will use performance art to portray the role and history of the nurse in the Nordic countries, while raising a discussion about its own artistic field through the mirroring of the nurses’ practice.

MoNDA is aiming at being the first artist-run museum for Nordic Digital Art. The project focuses on Nordic as well as international art developed with new technologies such as visual art on blockchains (the so-called non-fungible tokens).

An association of artistic and cultural institutions, who wish to accelerate action towards more sustainable practices in the Nordic artistic sector through a series of events.

Swedish, Moroccan and British project that will explore how textile patterns originally associated with Islam found their way into the Viking textile tradition

What does the world’s smallest theatre puppet look like? In this project, researchers and artists from Finland, the US, the Czech Republic and the UK have come together to create a theatre performance that will communicate the wondrous possibilities of micro- and nanotechnology through art and theatre.

The project is supported by Globus Opstart.

A Sami art collaboration that will create and disseminate traditional Sami art and crafts across national borders.